The Art of Dressing Fish Most humbly dedicated to the Honorable Society of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce

by your most obedient humble servant Ioh. Elias Haid by Johann Elias Haid, after Johann Caspar Heilmann

$850 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

A charming image by one of the great names amongst German mezzotinters: Johann Elias Haid 1739-1809 A pretty young woman is shown seated at the fireside. A pot is already on the fire and she looks up, pausing, before continuing to de-scale a small fish. To her right on the floor are an eel and two other fish that await the same treatment, behind them a bundle containing vegetables and a wooden bin with cabbage and leeks. On the shelf above the fire-place sit a coffee-mill,

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